Hello Gentoo Forums, today I finally got around to installing a near fully functional install. The only thing that won't work for me is downloading E17. One of the wiki's say to run
emerge --ask enlightenment:0.17 and that shows that I need to add lots of programs to the use area, however I don't know what to put in the use flag area._________________^.^

Last edited by silent_Walker on Wed May 29, 2013 2:29 pm; edited 2 times in total

@ OP you can show us using emerge -pv enlightenment:0.17 | wgetpaste since the pretend flag does not expect any user input, this should do fine. Second, why specifying a slot? Unless you have a specific reason, it may be better to drop it.

A comment about using variables to sort your use flags. You should never do this. Portage sources the files so those variables are defined in your shell. This can have disastrous consequences, not to mention cluttering your environment._________________First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

@ OP you can show us using emerge -pv enlightenment:0.17 | wgetpaste since the pretend flag does not expect any user input, this should do fine. Second, why specifying a slot? Unless you have a specific reason, it may be better to drop it.

A comment about using variables to sort your use flags. You should never do this. Portage sources the files so those variables are defined in your shell. This can have disastrous consequences, not to mention cluttering your environment.

Thanks, I'll have to read up more on Portage and the like, I thought doing it this way was the easiest._________________^.^

emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world
seems to be stuck on app-arch/unzip-6.0-r3, the Ethernet port shows no orange light and it has been like this for the past five or so minutes so I am just skipping that one._________________^.^

It is a file that you normally create yourself for package specific useflags, that you don't want system wide and is used when u emerge that package or when u do a world or system update.

Just look into the file and make sure it is setup correctly

Was just able to get past that error now, and I can now almost download glib 2.34. However when I push enter for emerge [package] it wants to download 2 packages before it downloads what I want and then I get red asterisks saying the emake failed. It wants to install unzip dockbook and then the glib 2.34.

That looks to be the only error, will try to solve that and let you now what happens.

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Fixed that and e17 is coming down the pipes . 121 packages... hope this works, if not will have to try again tomorrow Estimated Time - 4 hours to completion.

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On package 102, dbus, the package failed to compile and am going to see if I can fix that and download e17 tomorrow. It was the same error as the post above this one, which was fixed by fixing the gcc. It is not the gcc this time I think, because gcc says its OK.

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Could not log in this morning, re-emerged shadow and re-ran the command to emerge e17 and now everything is recompiling from the point that it left off at which was dbus, that successfully compiled got a couple packages left. Hope it works this time._________________^.^